Apparently, Goose Island runs a 50bbl brewhouse -- this new one will be 250bbl. That's on top of the existing 250bbl brewery in California. Each brewery will be able to brew 600,000 barrels a year for a combined output of 1.2M barrels of craft beer/year. Sierra Nevada produced 860,000 barrels last year and they're kind of the ubiquitous craft beer wherever you go. So, yeah -- big*.

Stick a cap on it — the first batch of Chicago-brewed Lagunitas beer is done.

Workers at the 300,000-square-foot Douglas Park facility are firing up the bottling line this morning and slapping on Lagunitas India Pale Ale labels. Once they flip the switch, the line will fill 500 bottles a minute.